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Horrific images of drug-users eaten alive by flesh-eating illness caused by homemade heroin

-Adapted from Daily Mail

The first cases of a terrifying new drug called 'Krokodil' that eats flesh from the inside out, is flammable and leaves addicts with reptilian-like skin have been reported this week in Arizona - and the state fears the beginning of an epidemic.

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